Hope the Irish help out

If the Irish, having voted no to the Lisbon treaty last year, vote yes to the same thing on October 2nd, we lose the last chance to have a say on what Europe does. Then it's goodbye to democracy in Europe, according to Declan Ganley, leader of the No vote campaign in Ireland:

The Lisbon Treaty, like the EU Constitution would have, puts this idea of post-democracy into practice in a number of concrete ways. The most striking is Article 48, universally known by its French nickname, the passerelle clause. It says that "with just intergovernmental agreement, with no need of going back to the citizens anywhere, they can make any change to this constitutional document, adding any new powers, without having to revisit an electorate anywhere," Mr. Ganley explains. "Do you think they want to revisit an electorate anywhere? Of course they don't." If the Irish vote yes, in other words, Oct. 2 would mark the last time that Brussels would ever have to bother giving voters a say on what the EU does and how it does it. Ireland would have, in effect, voted away the last vestige of European direct democracy not just for itself, but for the entire continent.
Wall St Journal 11.9.09

The really disturbing thing is how 'they' managed to swing another vote just a year after a decisive answer was given; who is pulling the strings here? And how many people actually have any idea of the significance of October 2nd?